JAPANESE LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION 1

Knowledge and understanding: students will be able to read and understand passages on familiar daily topics written in basic vocabulary and kanji.

Students will be able to listen and comprehend basic conversations patterns encountered in daily life and generally follow their contents.

Knowledge of 100 kanji and 800 words of general use.

Applying knowledge and understanding: the students will be able to apply autonomously and originally the achieved skills and to connect with daily life context (asking or giving informations, environment descriptions, basic dialogue, reading and writing skills).

Making judgments: comprehension and prodution of data and informations. The students will approach to the Japanese language and culture free from any ethnocentric perspective.

Communication skills:the achievement of communication skills will be reinforced by class and laboratory activities and simulations of ordinary life contexts connected to familiar topics and immediate needs.

Learning skills: alongside the class and laboratory activities, the students will also carry out individual activities aimed at improving thei analysis skills and reinforcing their reading, writing, listening, speaking and translation skills.

frontal class activities. Laboratory excercise, individual activities.

Introduction and consolidation of the Japanese writing systems, basic morphology, syntax and phonology. Reading, listening, writing, speaking and translation skills will be the main activities based on the textbooks. The course will adopt also audio and visual material aimed to male the students get familiar with topics related to Japanese culture.

1) Silvana De Maio, Carolina Negri, Junichi Oue (curr.), Corso di lingua giapponese, Vol. I, Hoepli, Milano, 2007,

2) Silvana De Maio, Carolina Negri, Junichi Oue (curr.), Corso di lingua giapponese, Vol. II, Hoepli, Milano, 2007,

Altro materiale complementare ai contenuti del corso potrebbe essere distribuito in classe o sulla piattaforma studium del corso di lingua e traduzione giapponese I :

Testi di grammatica consigliati: Seiichi Makino, Michio Tsutsui A dictionary of basic Japanese grammar, The Japan Times, Tokyo, 1986.

Matilde Mastrangelo, Naoko Ozawa, Mariko Saito, Grammatica giapponese, Hoepli, Milano 2006.